Former employee Tesla laid out software and hardware hacks for cars

Hacker device CANtact connects to the port ODB2

Eric Evenchick worked a little as an intern at Tesla Motors, but during this time he managed to collect a large amount of important and useful information about the electric vehicles made by this company, as well as the universal tire Controller Area Network (CAN), which also works in other cars .

The ex-trainee opened his discoveries in front of the hacker conference BlackHat Asia.

Among other things, Eric Ivenczyk published the source code for the CANard utility, written in the Python programming language. The utility allows you to easily and easily reprogram the car computer, adapting it to your own needs.
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Directly to connect to the car Ivenchyk developed a CANtact device. The author made 100 pieces of such boards and sells them for $ 59.95, but the design is open , so nothing prevents you from soldering the analog by your own.

Video recording of Ivenchik's speech at the conference